[SoCoSA/discuss] WinXP -- joining a Win2K domain

[Trevor Benson]

Try deleting the computer account in AD that you manually created, and then attempt to join. This account is created automatically for you anyway, and creating it ahead of time is a throwback to NT4 domains.  Short of that the only other thing should be having DNS set to ONLY your AD server, if you have a secondary or tertiary DNS entry pointing to an ISP or some external DNS source, you are probably getting that one when you try to join.

Trevor

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Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 10:54 PM
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Subject: [SoCoSA/discuss] WinXP -- joining a Win2K domain

All,

I've done this previously, and smoothly; but this time I screwed up a prior step, and things are MUCH less smooth...

Got a WinXP-PROsp2 laptop, joining a Win2K-centric environment.

What happened was, I accidentally gave the system the wrong hostname (host named for user -- wrong user's name).  Bad BAD me.  Took me a while to get THAT fixed, but now it is.  However, I had to boot it standalone WITHOUT being network-aware, domain'ed, etc, as the network seemed to be forcing the old ID on it.  <sigh>  But I did it.

Now, I can't rejoin the domain with the new name.  Yes, I've added the new system-name to the servers' Active Directory, exactly as I added the (wrong) original name.

What happens now is this:

In the "System Properties" box (either via Control Panel, or "My Computer/Properties"), on the  "Computer Name" tab, I click the "Change" button.  I hit the "Domain" radiobutton, and enter the name of the domain (call it "XYZ").

When it works (as I recall) I get a challenge-prompt telling me to enter a name/passwd with auth to join the domain; I do so, and I'm done.

Now, I get an error pop-up, "a domain-controller for the domain XYZ could not be contacted.  Ensure that the domain name is typed correctly".

"Could not be contacted?"  In a CMD window, I type "nslookup" and the DNS server running on the PDC happily responds -- so it sure CAN be contacted.  All the OTHER systems on the net talk happily to the domain controller!  No, no router-rules blocking WINS/NetBIOS traffic (no routers between here and there, and the WinXP Firewall is off).

Domain typed correctly?  Oh, yeah -- it's not "XYZ" but it's just as simple, and it's right.


Any help VERY gratefully accepted!  Thanks...

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